Counseling - Meditation - Fitness
There’s a good chance your present suffering and obstacles are less a reflection of anything wrong with how your brain works, and more a reflection of a need to adapt to increasing societal pressures.
Traditional beliefs and institutions are in decline. Wages and currency are eroding. Technology undermines everything from employment to social interaction to parenting, as well as attention span and critical thought. Courts prioritize extraction over social harmony, and schools are often places tailor-made to inhibit happy and successful upbringings. Polished social media personalities become the unrealistic, and often fraudulent, standard by which a person is measured across mental, physical, social, and financial domains. The game of life is harder every year, and the prize increasingly meager.
One’s options so framed might at first glance appear bleak.
And yet, there is still a way to win at this game. To figure out what strategies, tactics, and support can help you perform in the outside world and flourish within the mind. We summarize this way of facing the challenges of the present day as Behavioral Fitness, and this is what we offer.
We can help you enhance your outcomes and inner experience through counseling, meditation, and/or fitness training. What sets us apart is a mechanism and results-driven approach that utilizes tactics backed by biology and performance research, without losing the validation, empathy, challenging, and investigation of classical therapy.
Welcome to Paragon Wellness. We offer in-person or telehealth services in Louisiana, and telehealth counseling in Florida and Washington states.
We treat classical mental health disorders at an outpatient level of care: anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, OCD, substance use disorders and behavioral addictions, acute and post-traumatic stress disorders, bipolar disorder, oppositional defiance, borderline, dissociative, narcissistic, dependent, and antisocial traits or personality disorders. This is done through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, evolutionary psychology, somatic-informed, and anti-fragility frameworks.
We work with couples and families, with the aim of restoring supportive, respectful, and warm communication and negotiation practices, through cultivating strategies and tactics that allow everyone’s values to thrive in a mutually designed family culture.
A note on working with men: Our approach is particularly suited to the masculine experience. Behavioral fitness integrates the necessity of maintaining ongoing performance while minimizing and streamlining the suffering and extra effort required to achieve desired goals. This can be ideal if someone’s need for support clashes with the persistent demands of their obligations to provide for themselves and others.
Consider the problems in your life.
If you developed more clarity and discipline, what unmet goals would you attain?
If you achieved optimal health and fitness, what would happen to your energy level and mood?
If you generated wealth through an enjoyable profession or business, far above your financial obligations, how could your life be different?
If you communicated clearly to integrate the needs and wants of others with your own, how would your interactions and relationships change?
If you developed a working knowledge of your emotional mechanisms, of strategy and tactics, and of logic and rational inquiry, how much further would your problem-solving efforts reach?
If you are ready to get serious about your mood, performance, and purpose, we look forward to hearing from you!
Dr. Ken Knight explains the biological mechanisms of differing emotional states, and how to cultivate tactics to optimize for each.
